After [Fantasia's] 1969 rerelease proved a cult hit among college-age kids looking for a hallucinogenic experience, conservative groups began picketing movie theaters for screening Disney's animated "drug fantasies." Hippie-era moviegoers liked to sit in the front row, even on top of each other, smoking pot and offering advice to Mickey.

The company asked the theaters to promote the film not as typical Disney fare, but "now you sell Fantasia as you did Easy Rider. Hip youngsters come to see it as a special kind of trip."

Disney didn't exactly discourage the connotation. Psychedelic posters and other ad materials featuring Chernobog and the dancing mushrooms called it "The Ultimate Experience," while the promotional kit quoted one underground review: "Disney's Fantasia: A Head Classic: Representation of sound as color does resemble tripping on STD, LSD, THC and various other letters of the alphabet."

Here's that 60s "Fantasia" poster. The intention to suggest hallucinogenic drugs is clear. You were invited to get high and go see that movie, and it was much talked about at the time as a movie to see while high. I think there a sequence with mushrooms dancing about that considered a deliberate drug reference in the original film, not just the 60s marketing.

"After [Fantasia's] 1969 rerelease proved a cult hit among college-age kids looking for a hallucinogenic experience, conservative groups began picketing movie theaters for screening Disney's animated "drug fantasies." Hippie-era moviegoers liked to sit in the front row, even on top of each other, smoking pot and offering advice to Mickey.

"The company asked the theaters to promote the film not as typical Disney fare, but "now you sell Fantasia as you did Easy Rider. Hip youngsters come to see it as a special kind of trip."

"Disney didn't exactly discourage the connotation. Psychedelic posters and other ad materials featuring Chernobog and the dancing mushrooms called it "The Ultimate Experience," while the promotional kit quoted one underground review: "Disney's Fantasia: A Head Classic: Representation of sound as color does resemble tripping on STD, LSD, THC and various other letters of the alphabet.""

The first poster is for the Doors and the MC-5. I saw the Doors on their last tour in the fall of 1968 (had 4th row seats, amazing concert, Clapton stepping forward to play the wah-wsh pedal on White Room, ...).

I remember seeing the MC-5 several times. They were known for playing particularly LOUD (they had a wall of amps behind them) and for their iconic signature line that heralded their intense shows:

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